Denver Nuggets second-round draft pick Thomas Welsh has signed a two-way contract, the team announced Thursday afternoon.

Welsh, the 58th overall pick in last month’s NBA draft, averaged 12.6 points, 10.8 rebounds and 1.4 assists during his senior season at UCLA. He averaged six points, four rebounds and one assist in two summer league games for Denver, but missed time in Las Vegas with a shoulder injury.

“We think his unique style can eventually translate to the NBA court,” Nuggets president of basketball operations Tim Connelly said on draft night. “We’re kind of looking for ‘awkward’ skill sets late in the second round, and I think Welsh fits that mold.”

Signing a two-way contract means Welsh will spend a maximum of 45 days with the Nuggets and the rest of the time in the G League during the 2018-19 season. The salary is $75,000.

A two-way spot with the Nuggets opened up when Torrey Craig signed a full two-year NBA contract with Denver earlier this month. Monte Morris holds the Nuggets’ other two-way contract, but he could be promoted to a standard NBA deal this offseason.

Gina Mizell covers the Denver Nuggets for The Denver Post. She joined The Post in September 2017, after 3 1/2 years covering Oregon State football for The Oregonian in Portland. She was named the 2016 Oregon Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sports Media Association. She was the Oklahoma State football beat reporter for The Oklahoman from 2011-14 and a sports reporter/columnist for The Beaumont (Texas) Enterprise from 2010-11. She is a 2010 graduate of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.

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